The picture on the right is the only photograph that I was able to identify as the ship "Emigrant". Though it appears to have seen better days, this photograph was taken at Bristol, England when it ran aground. Franz Hillenbrand boarded this ship (actually called a barque or bark) to emigrate to America. A barque is a three masted square rigged sailing ship that traversed the Atlantic Ocean.On this particular passage, the Captain of the ship was Cornelius Anderson. The ship was measured at 379 tons. All of the passengers were of German descent. There appears to have been over 200 passengers on this particular trip. That sounds amazing, in that there is precious room onboard. The bottom deck housed ballast, supplies and possessions. The middle deck was the steerage where the passengers were cramped during the journey. The photograph below portrays what the inside of a barque would look like in the mid 1800's. The next installment will be the arrival of Franz Hillenbrand in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Might this be the same "Emigrant" that left Montrose, Scotland on 7 August 1858, Capt. Forbes, headed to Quebec, Canada with passengers? On its return trip cargo was lumber. If so, it was the barque my then 10 month old grandfather and his parents traveled to N. America, onto Michigan. Thanks.
Comments please. 2 April 2008.
pepper-dale@comcast.net
Hi Dale,
I don't know if this was the same ship. There were two ships with the name "Emigrant". The one my ancestors were on was the 367 ton "Emigrant", built in Bremen in 1846 and rebuilt in 1877. The other "Emigrant" of 753 tons, was built in New Brunswick in 1845.
The second ship "Emigrant" was registered in Liverpool, England. In the Liverpool Shipping Register held by the Merseyside Maritime Museum, the final entry for the "Emigrant" is "Sold to Foreigners 1854". No details of the sale are recorded in the Register.
I don't know if this helps, but good luck on your search.
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